Toriko 169

Soooo much talking... Ok I gotta get back to studying.

[Toriko 169 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Live: You...
You can't... mean...
The worst "eating combination" for... [quote in white.]
the "Poison Potato"...!? [quote in white.]
Live: Was he aiming for this...
from the beginning...!!?
Side: After risking their lives, the destination of victory...!!
Title: "Toriko"

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Author: Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi
Title: Gourmet 169 The Eating Combination of Victory!!
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Live: Eating combination...
In other words, the "cooking method" for the "Poison Potato"...?
you know it...!? Heavenly King Coco...!!
Komatsu: ..........
"Solanin"----- [quote in White]
Komatsu: It's a poison found in the tubers and such in ordinary potatoes,
but the "Poison Potatoe's" poison is a new kind of poison called "Neo-Solanin"...
0.01 milligram of it is a lethal dose. It has a toxicity of about 40,000 times that of normal solanin...
Neosolanin has a special characteristic where a little bit of heat or other stimulus can alter its shape and properties.
Because it fills the entire potato, complete removal of it has hitherto been impossible.
Coco: The one way to cook it is to alter the properties of the poison to make it as weak as possible...
If you do that beforehand, you can eat it without dying. It requires skills, but if you learn them it takes barely any cooking time.
However, while that weakened poison may not be powerful, but for people with an addictive nature it causes a serous reaction.
Because that method also limitlessly deteriorates the potato flavor, it's not recognized as a cooking method...

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Live: You sue know a lot...
about "poison", don't you...?
Coco: I'm well aware that in the underworld society you buy and sell memory data of high quality ingredients.
So of course you could easily get the data to weaken the potato's poison...
However, depending on the combination of foodstuffs you've eaten, even the weakened poison can regain its original powerful poisonous effect...
Did the high-priced data you bought not have that information with it?
Live: It did... [This part is big. The next part's in the same bubble.]
If I recall, it was the antigens contained in shellfish and and also strong alcohol...
and the toxin contained in the "Electric Banana" which I ate last would... [quote big and bold.]
react only with the weakened poison of the "Poison Potato" and bring about a severe allergic effect...
"Gold Shrimp", "Summer Whiskey", "Electric Banana"... when did you come up with...
this order...?
SFX: GIRI
Coco: After you ate the "Golden Shrimp"...
After that it hit on me to confirm this for the "Poison Potato"...

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Live: After I ate the "Golden Shrimp"...
You had no guarantee I would completely eat the "Summer Whiskey" or the "Electric Banana", right?
Coco: ..........
With regards to the "Summer Whiskey" we had eaten it completely once ourselves...
So I purposely sent that to you as an attack on your pride...
Humans with paper-thin content of character always have the thickest prides...
I was certain you would drink it...
Live: .............
After that there was a possibility I would fight the "Wisdom Panda"... [quote bold]
If I had taken the 250 minutes, the majority of the alcohol would have been digested...
Coco: ......Before that point, among the 12 ingredients you had possessed,
it was clear that the only high capture level ingredient was the "Rockmadillo", just that one species. [quote bold]
Aside from that, even if you had difficult cooking to do, the capturing of the ingredients themselves was always easy...
Coco: Your tendency of finding fighting strong wild beasts as troublesome was obvious...
Far from it, in your state where you were drinking your victory drink... Even if you had the strength to beat it
I thought you would pass on the "Wisdom Panda".
Live: At that point, there was a turnabout in the points... So from the remaining cards...
I had no choice but to eat the "Electric Banana", then...
A little more......

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Live: I cannot accept that version of events at all...
Compared to my eating combination, the risk of the ingredients you made Toriko eat was too high...
A little more...
Toriko: I told you, didn't I? Livebearer.
Live: !
Toriko: That for me, there isn't a single
miss-ingredient.
Live: Toriko!!
SFX: ZAH
Coco: The "Nitro Cherry" was a gamble for us, as well...
In fact, it became Toriko's eating combination that was troubling...
Before he could take on the "Nitro Cherry", first I needed to have the damage taken from the "Wisdom Panda"
to be recovered more efficiently, so we made his Gourmet Cells become active.

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Komatsu: Because I steam-roasted the "Wisdom Panda" co it wouldn't lose any of its Vitamin B1 or other high-nutrient content,
and the "Garlic Crab" filled with Allicin after the Vitamin B1 was because I wanted to induce a high fatigue-recovery effect.
Of course, I also cooked it to make it taste better, too.
Coco: The food we ate right before the "Nitro Cherry", the "Dynamidragonfly"'s meat has the effect of neutralizing other explosive ingredients' effects.
And the goal with the "Troll Cheese" was that using its intense odor to numb the nose to protect him from the poisonous vapors from the explosion...
Because Toriko's nose is too good...
Live: What? You decided to purposefully...
eat something that smelled awful...?
I didn't remove the detonation from the critical "Nitro Cherry" , I cooked in order to bring out the greatest potential savoriness.
I believed that Toriko-san's cells would hold out with that savoriness as a provision...
Though this was all Coco-san's advice...
Coco: After that, restoring the strong cardiac action after eating the "Numblemon" was our goal...
Toriko: So those last 3 consecutive beasts were for recovery...?
Coco: No, those were different...
Toriko: !
Match: ..........
These guys are incredible...

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Match: This isn't something you can do by thinking things through normally...
To actually eat "Nitro Cherries"...
Coco: Now,
Draw your cards, Livebearer.
You can try to weaken the potato's poison, but no matter how you try to cook it otherwise...
it will be the death of you...
Live: ......
All right.
I think I'll eat...
the "Poison Potato"!
Idiots... Taking all that time to politely explain their worthless strategy...
While you were spouting that bullshit plan...
SFX: KACHI KACHICHI

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Live: I was...
completing preparations...!!
Cutting-off off the sense of pain----
And also coating the inner wall of all of the digestive organs from the esophagus to the rectum...
with a *biodegradable plastic----
Now the poison won't be absorbed into my body!!
Who gives a fuck about eating combination!?
SFX: KAA
Asterisk: *A material that will eventually be broken down by microbes.
Live: I'm the king of underworld society!!
Even from the start, this game
was a farce playing in the palm of my hand!!
SFX: KYAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I'll eat it...!!
The "Poison Potato"...!!
Coco: I forgot to mention one thing...
When you were drinking that "Summer Whiskey"
you also ate a snack to go with the alcohol, right...?
Live: !

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Coco: The one vegetable compatible with "Summer Whiskey", "Cheese Chinese Cabbage"... [quotes in white]
A large amount of microbes settle inside that.
Because of the work done by the large amount of microbes in the "Cheese Chinese Cabbage" the alcohol is also broken down.
Live: .............
So...
What are you saying...?
Coco: I'm trying to tell you that anything of the level of biodegradable polymers or plastics...
would be easily broken down by those microbes...
Live: Eh!?
SFX: ZUAAAAA
SFX: DORO DORO
Coco: I told you.
Your eating combination was bad.

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Live: H... How...
Did you know there was coating inside my organs...?
Coco: You have the unbalanced diet of originally eating ingredients as data from the brain.
You have no interest in the actual taste or nutrients, do you?
It was within my calculations that you would put some membrane on your stomach and intestines as a countermeasure against dangerous ingredients and block off the taste and components of the ingredients.
Live: Are you trying to get me to believe that even the fact that I would eat "Cheese Chinese Cabbage" as a snack to go with the alcohol was within your calculations?
Coco: I didn't know that Komatsu-kun would use that as a companion snack as well...
But your leering at Komatsu-kun was quite plain.
I thought that you would mimic it,
seeing it as a hint to a good snack to go with alcohol.
Live: ...Gu...
GUNUuU...
Coco: Now, the talking is over.
Will you eat it, or won't you?
Live: HUUUUUUUUU
HUUUUUUUU
Th...
This can't be...
Pa...
Pass...
How could I......

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Announcer: Livebearer announces a give-up, so the turn switches.
Coco: .............
I pass as well.
Announcer: AAAAH, Team Coco Toriko Komatsu also does a give-up!!
Live: To bastards like theeeeeese...
UGU
GUU...
Announcer: The turn switches once again!!
Coco: With you having done one give-up already...
you no longer have any path but to eat it...
SFX: ZUGAAAN
I...
SFX: OOOO
Live: I won't accept it...
Me... Lose...?
Such a thing cannot be...

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Match: If you don't eat it,
that's your 2nd give-up.
Livebearer,
you lose.
Live: KIIIieEEeE
HA...a...aaA
Fine...
I don't care...
Fuck the game...
You guys!
SFX: BABAH
SFX: DODON

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Live: HIHIHIHI
I may have lost or whatever...
But regardless, you guys will...
never get awaaaaay.
Hihihihihi.
Coco: Of course, this is within my calculations...
That's why I said "the talking is over".
Match: You all!!
Yakuza: Yes, sir!!
Boss!!
SFX: ZAH
Match: We wanted to use force from the beginning.
Leave the small fries to us.
In exchange...
I'll leave that basket case to you.
SFX: KIIIIIII BIRI BIRIBIRI

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Toriko: Hehheh. He finally shows his true colors.
Coco: Toriko.
Toriko: !
Those last three consecutive ingredients were...
preparation to eat the very very last ingredient.
Toriko: Coco...
Coco: You'll eat it, right?
The "Poison Potato"!!
Komatsu: There are still ingredients left...!
Let's eat them and not leave one left!!
SFX: ZU...
Toriko: Was it that obvious?
SFX: NIH (Grin)
Coco: Toriko, you cover Match and the others.
Toriko: Hm?
Coco: I'll deal with him.
I've been sitting this whole time, and my body's feeling rusty.

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Live: EHEH
EHEHE
Coco: Maybe you would've had a better chance to win...
trying your luck with the game, huh?
SFX: DON
SFX: KARA KARA
Komatsu: S...
Sorry for the wait...
Toriko: !
Komatsu: The final ingredient of "Gourmet Tasting"...
the "Poison Potato"! [quote in white]
Toriko: Komatsu!!
SFX: KARA KARA

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Komatsu: B... But, Toriko-san...
I'm sorry, I couldn't remove the poison after all...
There's still a considerable amount of poison inside...
Toriko: I don't mind.
I told you, didn't I? To me, there are no miss-ingredients.
I'll never leave anything on my plate.
Komatsu...
that goes double for any cooking you made.
Now...
This is my first time eating this...
It's our complete victory!
Itadakimaaasu.
AAH

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Toriko: !!
SFX: GYUIII
SFX: MIKI BICHI
Komatsu: WAWAH
Coco: ..........
I thought so...
The "Poison Potato" was...
an ingredient compatible with you, Toriko...
Your evolved Gourmet Cells negated the poison!!

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Toriko: From the beginning, I had a feeling...
that somehow, I would be able to eat it...
Komatsu: Toriko-san!!
I'm so glad!!
Match: ...... Geez...
What a guy...
Toriko... He's headed higher and higher...
to greater heights as a Bishokuya...
Toriko: But even so, Komatsu... I think after all, I could enjoy eating that poison
thanks to your cooking!!
Komatsu: Ah, no I didn't do that much...
Side: The card game, it was a feast!!
Toriko: Livebearer, you said something like this to me, right...?
That you wouldn't mind forming a combo with me...?
Sorry, but I've already got
the ultimate combo right here!!
SFX: DON
Toriko: Now, let's get to our goal ingredient.
Information on the "Meteor Garlic"!!
Bottom: ...Gourmet 169
/ End
Next issue, the final chapter of the Gourmet Casino Arc! What will happen to Toriko!?